John Gill's Exposition on Luke 21:4

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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For all these have of their abundance, etc.] Which they had remaining; the same Hebrew word rty signifying to remain, and to abound: they had large possessions, and gave in much, and yet had a great deal left; out of which they cast in unto the offerings of God; or “gifts of God”: not as gifts unto him; or among the gifts of God; but into the treasury where the gifts, and freewill offerings were put; the same with the “Corban”, in (<402706>Matthew 27:6) and so the Syriac version here renders it, “the house of the offering of God”: and it is expressed in the plural; because there were several chests, in which these gifts were put, for various uses; (see Gill on “<411241>Mark 12:41”) but she of her penury hath cast in all the living she had; (see Gill on “<411244>Mark 12:44”).

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